Biopharmaceutical company AbbVie—maker of the expensive and widely prescribed immunosuppressive medication Humira—today became the 11th drug manufacturer to announce conditions on 340B pricing when contract pharmacies dispense medicines to patients.
Starting Feb. 1, AbbVie will require hospitals to submit claims
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The federal government late yesterday filed notice that it is appealing a federal judge’s joint ruling in two cases last month that halted enforcement actions against two drug companies that deny 340B pricing when hospitals and other health care providers
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South Dakota U.S. Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Senate Republican and a long-time 340B covered entity ally, might not run for re-election in 2022, two news organizations report. It would be a significant blow to 340B providers who have counted
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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has suggested that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) be empowered to negotiate drug prices on behalf of Medicare, an initiative that may impact the 340B program if it should come to fruition.
Manchin
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New York State and Virginia health centers asked a federal district judge on Monday to deny four insulin and diabetes drug manufacturers’ motion to pause fact-finding in the health centers’ antitrust suit stemming from the companies’ 340B contract pharmacy policies.
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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has given drug manufacturers Novo Nordisk and Sanofi a Jan. 26 deadline to file briefs seeking reversal of parts of a district judge’s Nov. 5 joint decision in the two companies’ 340B contract pharmacy
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The first 340B covered entity registration period of the year will be Jan. 1-18, 2022, for an effective start date of April 1, 2022.
Eligible hospitals, health centers, clinics, and their child sites and contract pharmacies registered during the period
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Just over 850 hospitals in the 340B program asked the federal government yesterday to appeal a judge’s Nov. 5 ruling that halted enforcement actions against two drug companies that deny 340B pricing when hospitals and others use contract pharmacies. They
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West Virginia U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s rejection Sunday of his fellow Democrats’ Build Back Better (BBB) policy agenda left its drug pricing section dead in the water.
Manchin said of the BBA bill on Dec. 19, “I cannot vote to
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White House COVID-19 testing czar and long-time Democratic health policy expert Carole Johnson will become the next head of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in January.
HRSA Acting Administrator Diana Espinosa announced Johnson’s selection this afternoon via
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